Ken Ludwig (Playwright) may well be the most performed playwright of his generation. He has had six productions on Broadway and eight in London’s West End. His 34 plays and musicals are staged around the world and throughout the United States every night of the year. They have been produced in over 20 languages in more than 30 countries, and many have become standards of the American repertoire. His first play, Lend Me a Tenor, won two Tony Awards and was called “one of the classic comedies of the 20th century” by The Washington Post. Crazy for You was on Broadway for five years, on the West End for three, and won the Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Musical. It has been revived in London twice. His play Murder on the Orient Express is currently on a yearlong tour of the United Kingdom, Ireland, and China. In addition, he has won the Edwin Forrest Award for Contributions to the American Theatre, two Laurence Olivier Awards, two Helen Hayes Awards, the Charles MacArthur Award, and the Edgar Award for Best Mystery of the Year. He also won the Samuel French Award as Playwright of the Year, and he was nominated for an Emmy Award for writing the Kennedy Center Honors. He has had three world premieres at The Old Globe: Baskerville; Sherwood, the Adventures of Robin Hood; and The Gods of Comedy. His other plays include Shakespeare in Hollywood, Dear Jack, Dear Louise, Moon Over Buffalo, Leading Ladies, Twentieth Century, A Fox on the Fairway, A Comedy of Tenors, The Game’s Afoot, and Moriarty. His plays have starred, among others, Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Tony Shalhoub, Joan Collins, and Kristin Bell. His book How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare, published by Penguin Random House, won the Falstaff Award for Best Shakespeare Book of the Year, and has just been released in a new, expanded edition. His essays on theatre are published in The Yale Review, and he gives the Annual Ken Ludwig Playwriting Scholarship at The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. His first opera, Tenor Overboard, opened at the Glimmerglass Festival in 2022. His most recent world premieres were Lend Me a Soprano and Moriarty, and his newest plays and musicals include Pride and Prejudice Part 2: Napoleon at Pemberley, Beginner’s Luck, and Easter Parade. His latest plays include Death on the Nile, which opens in December at Arena Stage in Washington, DC, and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, which premieres in January at Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, Florida. For more information visit www.KenLudwig.com.

Paul Tate dePoo III (Scenic Design) Award-winning Cuban American scenic, projection, and production designer based in NYC. Broadway: The Great Gatsby (Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award), Spamalot, The Cottage (OCC nomination). The Old Globe: What We Talk About…. Kennedy Center: resident designer; Nine, tick, tick… BOOM!, Spamalot, Sunset Boulevard, Guys and Dolls, Tommy, The Music Man, Footloose, Next to Normal, 50 Years of Broadway. Additional highlights: Titanic, Dear World (City Center Encores!), Usher: My Way – The Vegas Residency (Park MGM, Caesars Colosseum), Cynthia Erivo & Friends (Kennedy Center, PBS), Dancing with the Stars: Live! (2023, 2024), Così Fan Tutte (Santa Fe Opera), Turandot (Oper Im Steinbruch, Austria), Titanic, Sweeney Todd (OD Company, Seoul), Grand Hotel (Helen Hayes Award), Titanic, A Little Night Music (Signature Theatre). pauldepoo.com.

JAX Messenger (Lighting Design) Lighting designer for opera, theatre, dance, and themed environments. Second production with Peter Amster. Selected credits: Santa Fe Opera, Danish National Opera, Canadian Opera Company, San Francisco Opera, LA Opera, National Center for Performing Arts Beijing, Minnesota Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Austin Lyric Opera, Bard SummerScape, Boston Lyric Opera, Washington Ballet, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Black Grace Dance, Wanda Cultural Group. Other: frequent collaborator with stage directors Thaddeus Strassberger, Joel Ivany, RB Schlather, Christopher Alden. As associate designer: hundreds of productions in London’s West End, Broadway, San Francisco Opera, Kennedy Center, and other major theatres around the world.

Greg Emetaz (Projection Design) Theatre: Joseph, All Shook Up, Footloose, Singin’ in the Rain (The Muny), Mamma Mia!, Newsies (TUTS), Man of La Mancha, The Three Musketeers (Asolo Rep), The Vagrant Trilogy (The Public Theater). Opera: Champion, Fire Shut Up in My Bones (The Metropolitan Opera), La Fanciulla del West (NCPA Beijing), M. Butterfly, Tristan, The Righteous (Santa Fe Opera). Concert: Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville Tour. Film: feature film Camp Wedding; short films Bowes Academy, Spell Claire, Get the F K Outta Paris, Death by Omelette. Behind-the-scenes documentaries: Julie Taymor’s The Tempest, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. MINORapocalypse.com.

Emmelyn Thayer (Dialect Coach) The Old Globe: Henry 6, Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt. 2B, Ride, Cabaret, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dial M for Murder. Regional: Noises Off, Sweeney Todd, Man from Nebraska, Private Lives (Cygnet Theatre), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (North Coast Rep), The Glass Menagerie (Diversionary). The Old Globe and University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program: Voice and Speech faculty; The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Cloud 9, Measure for Measure, Mother Courage and Her Children, more. USD Department of Theatre: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Arcadia, more. Honors: Horrigan Award, Craig Noel M.F.A. Fellowship. emmelynthayer.com.

Anjee Nero (Production Stage Manager) The Old Globe: Ride, Cabaret, Come Fall in Love, Almost Famous, The Gardens of Anuncia, The Heart of Rock & Roll, Bright Star, Allegiance, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Benny & Joon, October Sky, Rocky Horror Show, Life After, The Wanderers, Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG San Diego Christmas Show, A Room with a View, Kingdom, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, Be a Good Little Widow, more. Broadway: Bright Star. Regional highlights: Bright Star (Kennedy Center), Fly, Sideways, Ruined, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Herringbone, The Seven (La Jolla Playhouse), Ruined (Huntington Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Kiss Me, Kate (Hartford Stage), Venice (Center Theatre Group), Antigone (SITI Company).

Stefania Giron Zuluaga (Assistant Stage Manager) (she/her) The Old Globe: Destiny of Desire. Regional: Something’s Afoot, Songs of the Moon, Into the Woods (The 5th Avenue), Quixote Nuevo, Fat Ham, The Tempest, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Seattle Rep), Quixote Nuevo, Seussical (South Coast Rep), A Christmas Carol (ACT), Little Shop of Horrors, Mamma Mia!, The Book Club Play (Village Theatre). Education: Seattle University.

Evelyn G. Myers (Stage Management Swing) (she/her) The Old Globe: Fat Ham, Globe for All’s The Comedy of Errors, Henry V. La Jolla Playhouse: The Garden, POP Tour (Hoopla!), POP Tour (Pick Me Last), POP Tour x National Disability Theatre (Emily Driver’s Great Race Through Time and Space). North Coast Repertory: Sense of Decency, Pippin. Grand Central Art Center: Savage in Limbo. Hollywood Fringe Festival: The First and the Last (Encore Award). Young Theatre: Bell, Book, and Candle (Kennedy Center Excellence in Stage Management Award).